Edward Scouten

At age 16, when attending a Boy Scout camp, Scouten befriended and helped two deaf scouts, which started a lifelong interest in deaf education. He started teaching deaf students at San Francisco State Teachers College and the California School for the Deaf at Berkeley, then earned a master's degree at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. in 1941. During World War II, he helped set up the first Army Aural Rehabilitation Center, which assisted servicemen deafened during combat. After the war, he taught for 25 years at Gallaudet and other schools for the deaf, and was the author of Turning Points in the Education of Deaf People, a classic text in the field. He died April 25 in Adamstown, Md. He was 89. From This is True for 25 April 2004 Suggestions for further reading: Learning American Sign Language: Levels I & II--Beginning & Intermediate (2nd... by Tom L. Humphries, Carol A. Padden Amazon Price: $41.20 Customer Review: I am hoping this book will be extrememly helpful in my class. Will further comment once I start classes....but as a start, the book is in excellent shape and was fast to be shipped.   For Hearing People Only by Matthew S. Moore, Linda Levitan Amazon Price: Customer Review: This book showed up in time for my class. It was in great condition just as it was listed to be.   Talking With Your Hands, Listening With Your Eyes: A Complete Photographic Gu... by Gabriel Grayson Amazon Price: $17.79 Customer Review: This book is big (325 pages) and wide but it is a WONDERFUL introduction to ASL. I have recently decided that I want to learn ASL and this book makes it very easy to learn the basic vocabulary. The pictures and descriptions are very clear and the tip...   Deaf Like Me by Thomas S. Spradley, James P. Spradley Amazon Price: $11.53 Customer Review: While reading this book it makes you realize the advantages you have growing up with hearing.   A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America by John Vickrey Van Cleve, Barry A. Crouch Amazon Price: $11.59 Customer Review: This is an excellent history for deaf education in the United States. It is a readable and insightful treasure of names, dates and institutions, developed against the broader canvas of world deaf education. The volume documents the development of s...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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